The Ink Black Heart
The Number One international bestseller (Strike 6)
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4.0 • 519 Ratings
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
***The 7th novel in the Strike series, THE RUNNING GRAVE, is coming in September 2023. Pre-order now and be the first to read it***
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, JULY 2023
'A superlative piece of crime fiction' SUNDAY TIMES
'There can be no denying [Galbraith's] considerable talents as a crime writer' GUARDIAN
'Fans will be as entranced as ever' DAILY MAIL
When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity.
Robin decides that the agency can't help with this - and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.
Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits - and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . .
A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Galbraith's stellar sixth whodunit featuring London PIs Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott (after 2020's Troubled Blood), Ellacott is consulted by a distraught Edie Ledwell, the cocreator of the hit animated series The Ink Black Heart. The bizarre program features a disembodied heart, a ghost, and other residents of a graveyard, and proved so successful on YouTube that it was purchased by Netflix. That switch, and rumors of a movie adaptation, infuriated some members of the passionate fandom. Edie has been persecuted online by someone called Anomie, who has shockingly accurate information about her personal life. Robin declines to help, citing a full workload and lengthy waiting list, only to feel guilty when two people affiliated with the program are stabbed, one fatally, in the cemetery that inspired the show's setting. She gets a chance at partial redemption when her firm's retained to identify Anomie. Galbraith (the pseudonym of J.K. Rowling) captures perfectly the venom unleashed when people can hide behind virtual personas and egg each other on, and plausibly sustains suspense, despite the book's length, about the murderer's identity until the end. This impressive series shows no sign of losing steam.
Customer Reviews
Disappointing
I know that social media played a big role in this book but found it hard to follow all the messaging. Not my favourite of the Strike series
Disappointing
Probably written for an different audience to the other books by this author. A lot of messages and gaming which is not of interest to me.
Very disappointed
Firstly it’s just a book, meant to entertain and engage its readers and provide a small bit of respite from our daily lives. So not important in the grand scheme of things.
The following comments are just my observations and opinions on the format of this book.
Secondly this book could have been so good … accept that it wasn’t, instead it was repetitive, drawn out, boring and a chore to read. It had the outline of a good story and the backup of previously successful books to give it promise unfortunately, it just doesn’t deliver.
I recommend, if you’re going to read this book, skip all of the social media interactions, including the chat about the Game that’s based on the cartoon ‘Ink Black Heart’. I did and it made no difference whatsoever to the storyline. Why the author included pages and pages of rubbish pretend twitter conversations thinking it would add relevant content is beyond me. Or maybe the author thinks they need to jump on the ‘Twitterverse’ bandwagon to prove they are relevant in todays age of social media, who knows.
I enjoyed the previous books very much and was looking forward to reading the next instalment however, this book was a complete waste of my time of which I have very little left. Two stars are for the little bit of content I did enjoy.